We arrived at Heathrow airport bright and EARLY, it was a bumpy flight, but the bumps allowed us to arrive 45 minutes early that scheduled. We cleared customs in no time, and we were on the Tube headed to South Kensington before we knew it! While on the Tube I looked for my camera to snap a picture and realized that it was still on the plane.
After a quick stop at Starbucks to caffeinate we headed to the Aster House, planning on dropping our bags and coming back later to check in, luck was with us and our room was available so we were able to check in and collect our bearings before we headed out for the day.
We started by exploring Portobello Road, from antiques to fresh fruits and veggies it was a site to see. Then we continued on to the Tate British where we grabbed lunch and then took the tour of the exhibits.
We then jumped on the river clipper to go visit the Tate Modern. We were entertained by the young child who did NOT want to come for the ride, as his father carried him onto the boat he grabbed onto the gangway handles and then the door jam expressing his displeasure about coming aboard, and then we were off. It was a lively cruise down the Thames.
We landed right in front of the Globe theater, and being William Shakespeare's birthday we went in and tried to get tickets to the evening performance of Hamlet, sadly it was sold out. We were able to get tickets for All's Well That Ends Well for Wednesday evening. Then we tried to take a tour of the theater, but there were no tours as they are in rehearsal.
After a quick ice cream stop, the temperature was in the 70's, we headed to the Tate Modern. The exhibit in the Turbine Gallery was by Ai WeiWei, a Chinese Artist, who was arrested by the Chinese government as he was boarding a plane in Hong Kong in April, he has not been heard from since. The exhibit was millions of porcelain sunflower seeds, each one was hand painted lying one the ground. We explored the rest of the museum.
We continued our journey around London by heading to Leicester Square to the TKTS booth to check out what was available, but our tired bodies told us we would not make it through a performance tonight. We decided that a Bus tour would let us rest and keep us awake for the next few hours. We took the Original Tour and bought a 24 Hour pass. We started at Leicester Square, saw Big Ben, Westminster Abby, Parliament, Buckingham
Palace, Green Park, and a variety of other sites before it started to down pour, we took this as a sign to get something to eat and then go to bed. Tomorrow will be another day of exploring!
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